Victoria’s Government has allocated in its Budget for 2018-2019 AUD 572 million (USD 429.17 million) to deliver further upgrades to Melbourne’s busiest rail corridor, delivering power upgrades, and modern signalling from the city to Cranbourne and Pakenham, paving the way for the Cranbourne line duplication, and undertaking detailed design work to enable new high capacity metro trains to run to Sunbury. The works will ensure more services, better reliability and room for an additional 234,000 peak passengers every week from Sunbury, Cranbourne and Pakenham.
This project will include upgraded power, new tracks, longer platforms and modernised signalling along the entire corridor to ensure new, high-capacity trains can reliably run all the way from Cranbourne and Pakenham to Sunbury, linked through the CBD by the Metro Tunnel. Works will also include planning for the future duplication of the Cranbourne line and associated works at the Dandenong and Caulfield junctions.
“We’re building the Metro Tunnel, delivering longer trains and getting rid of 17 dangerous and congested level crossings to deliver a new Sunbury to Cranbourne/Pakenham rail corridor. … This massive investment will see upgrades to power, track, stations and modern signalling along this new end to end rail corridor and will pave the way for more trains, more often,” Minister for Public Transport, Jacinta Allan, said.
Share on:
